Saturday, June 21, 2014

For Juvat

Since I noticed in your last comment that you like the F-107, I got a few shots of the one that Pima has, #55-5118.

But Wright-Patterson has one, too, #55-5119.

Neat plane, but for those not familiar, Republic's F-105 beat it out in competition and went on to become one of the all-time great fighter-bombers. The F-107 lost out and never went into production. There were only three prototypes made. These two still exist. The third, #55-5120, was wrecked by Scott Crossfield following an aborted take-off in 1959 and scrapped.

But I also thought of Juvat at Pima when I saw these:

Yeah, you need to get out there and see the place. Gimme some advance notice and I may try to join you.

Just finished writing a post for Sarge (he's a slave driver that one) and needed a graphic. That helped me finally figure out what struck me about the F-107. It reminds me of the Spy Vs. Spy characters in MAD magazine from when I was a kid.